Journalism: Period 4
Cold Case: TuPac Death
Due: November 15th, 2010
The Death Of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur a.k.a Makaveli was a very popular rapper, and some say he wasn’t a rapper, but a poet. Because of his carefree life and independent attitude, he made many friends, but even more enemies. He was born in New York in 1971, which is the East coast of America. On 1984, he moved again to Baltimore Maryland where he attended Baltimore School for the Performing Arts, and he also made good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. Four years later he moved yet again to Oakland California which is on the West coast of America.
In 1991, he gained recognition for an album called “2pacalypse Now” after joining a group named Digital Underground. That album was a success, and soon after he starred in the motion picture "Juice." Tupac eventually released another album called "Strictly for my Niggaz" and that too was a successful album. He was arrested for many crimes and some have been dropped. Some of these crimes include assault, shooting at the police, and sexual assault. He was being tried for the sexual assault charge and just a day before he was to be found guilty he was shot 5 times in a recording studio. It was considered an armed robbery, because he was robbed that day, but he blamed The Notorious B.I.G and Sean "Puffy" Combs claiming that they set him up.
This accusation ruined his relationship with B.I.G, and started a rivalry. This rivalry was not only between the two but instead the regions in which they resided, and so the East coast West coast fueds began. Tupac on the west and Biggie on the east. As he faced his time in prison for the sexual assault charges he let out an album "Me Against the World" which stayed at the top of the charts for 4 weeks straight. He was bailed by Suge Knight 8 months later. Suge paid 1 million dollars and as compensation Tupac sighned with Death Row releasing yet another album "All eyes in Me" He became a very valuable asset to Death Row, and starred in two more movies "Gridlock" and "Bullet". These would be the last films he would ever make.
In 1991, he gained recognition for an album called “2pacalypse Now” after joining a group named Digital Underground. That album was a success, and soon after he starred in the motion picture "Juice." Tupac eventually released another album called "Strictly for my Niggaz" and that too was a successful album. He was arrested for many crimes and some have been dropped. Some of these crimes include assault, shooting at the police, and sexual assault. He was being tried for the sexual assault charge and just a day before he was to be found guilty he was shot 5 times in a recording studio. It was considered an armed robbery, because he was robbed that day, but he blamed The Notorious B.I.G and Sean "Puffy" Combs claiming that they set him up.
This accusation ruined his relationship with B.I.G, and started a rivalry. This rivalry was not only between the two but instead the regions in which they resided, and so the East coast West coast fueds began. Tupac on the west and Biggie on the east. As he faced his time in prison for the sexual assault charges he let out an album "Me Against the World" which stayed at the top of the charts for 4 weeks straight. He was bailed by Suge Knight 8 months later. Suge paid 1 million dollars and as compensation Tupac sighned with Death Row releasing yet another album "All eyes in Me" He became a very valuable asset to Death Row, and starred in two more movies "Gridlock" and "Bullet". These would be the last films he would ever make.
The East Coast vs. West Coast War was between the Blood and Crip gang. TuPac was a part of the Blood side which was West Coast. His ex close friend Notorious BIG was a part of the East Coast side which is Crip. The biggest theory of Pac’s death is a paid job of a Crip to shoot TuPac in the car while with Surge Knight (the exectutive producer of Death Row Records). Before the final autopsy it was revealed that there were only 3 bullets found, but after the final autopsy there was a bullet found in his right thigh the bullet in close to his heart was not removed until the final autopsy. The gang wars included a lot of violence using words, guns, fighting, and dirty looks. Tupac Shakur was very strong and successful. He wrote songs about his death and how he imagined how he was going to die. In one of his songs he talked about his own funeral. In another song named “Not Mad at Ya” he was talking about how he isn’t mad at Biggie for basically paying to shoot him. Yet, people have many theories about Tupac and how he isn’t dead. Some people say that he faked his own death. Also, that some people believe that he is still alive because the white Cadillac containing the assailants was never found.
Basically the theory of Biggie Smalls hiring Crips to kill Tupac is most likely truth because he paid $1 million for killing Tupac Shakur. There was much envy between Tupac and Biggie, but before anything they were really close friends until they joined different gangs and began insulting each other. Six months later, Biggie Smalls died the same way. It is theorized that Biggie Smalls was connected to the plot that was responsible for Tupac Shakur's death.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Biggie_Smalls_in_the_Blood's_gang
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